Pop-Up Bookshop sells award-winning Usborne children's books online, at home parties, at local events, and at schools. Pop-Up Bookshop founded Great Big Read in September 2019, a local schools initiative to get more children reading. 📚 What is the Great Big Read mission? The Great Big Read mission is to champion literacy locally and to make a great big transformation to school and nursery bookshelves by delivering a bumper boost of brilliant books! 📚 How does Great Big Read stand apart from other book fundraising events? It’s no secret that teachers never have ANY spare time, and this is where the Great Big Read stands apart from other book events. Our team does ALL of the hard work by facilitating every aspect of the event, leaving teachers time to teach. 📚 How does Great Big Read engage the community? Great Big Read is fully inclusive and engages the whole community by bringing schools, nurseries and businesses together. We work with children of all ages, at every key stage level, all abilities, and from all demographics. Simply put, Great Big Read is a challenge for every child. Working together as a community, we are stronger. 📚 How successful is Great Big Read? Our 2020 success saw over £15k worth of books for schools and nurseries. We’d love to see Great Big Read work with over 100 schools every year and raise in excess of £100k for new books annually. 📚 If you are a teacher, TA, PTFA member, or passionate parent who would like Pop-Up Bookshop to help your school gain more books, contact Vanessa at www.greatbigread.com Career highlights; - Founded Great Big Read Dorset schools initiative in September 2019. - Awarded second place in the Usborne Books at Home Achievement Awards 2018 for Top New Leader (company-wide spanning the UK and EU, circa 6000 organisers), met Peter Usborne February 2019. - Individually selected to attend Leadership Development Training at Head Office with MD Mark Franklin. - Team training to executive of 250+ ladies.